Creative Communities of the World Forums. The peer to peer support community for media production professionals. FCPX Cut Finder review: Automatically find cuts in your footage Alex Raccuglia, the developer of apps like FCPX Diet and AutoDuck has released a new app that finds cuts in footage and either marks them or exports them as FCPX cuts. FCPX AutoDuck Automatic Ducking for Final Cut Pro X. Boot disk for mac. + Final Cut Pro: Great NLE that I know well and work fast in. + Color: A great grading tool and easier than AE for grading tasks + Soundtrack is great for scoring sound FX and included library is good. They didn’t show that side of Soundbooth. If I could only have one, FCP or Production Premium I’d choose Production Premium hands down.
Features
- MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, M4V without DRM, 3GP and most audio format supported
- Waveform Operations: Double click to play, one click to stop. Dragging to make timecode. Drag the edge to adjust timecode. Double click on subtitle to edit text.
- Text View Operations: It’s a standard Plain Text Editor. Click timecode to jump. Use arrow key on keyboard to shift timecode forward or backward.
- Warning Triangle: Too many letters-per-line or too many letters-per-second.
- Delete timecode to merge subtitles and hit Return key to split up a subtitle to two subtitles
- Command+J/K/L to step forward/backward specific frames
- Option+J/K/L to fast forward/reverse
- Subtitle overlay to the movie for reference
- Support multiple line subtitles
- Basic formatting supported: italic, bold, underline and font colour
- Set starting timecode.
- Adjust timecode to any HHMMSSFF.
- All drag-and-drop supported
- Convert corrupted timecode format
- Bilingual subtitle support:
- Merge subtitle text
- Split subtitle text
- Replace subtitle text and reserve the timecode
- Export bilingual text files without timecode
- Export bilingual SRT file with timecode
Anyone who uses Final Cut Pro X will know how long users have been asking for auto-ducking of audio on the Final Cut Pro X timeline. Left 4 dead for mac. The problem is that Final Cut Pro X uses clip based audio, meaning there is no mixer and no busses, so even if you want to use a compressor to duck audio then there's no way to feed a side-chain signal to it.
However, if you want to auto duck audio fast in Final Cut Pro X now it's possible using this great new plug-in, SpeakUp from Audified.
Not primarily aimed at Final Cut users SpeakUp makes it possible to auto-duck the audio in Final Cut because it does not rely on any sidechain from a mixer but it uses its own process made up of a Sensor, a plugin that monitors the speech clips and a Performer, a plugin that does the ducking.
Auto Duck Final Cut Pro Audio Using This Audio Plugin From Audified
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Julian Rodgers has also been looking at Audified SpeakUp and he writes these observations.
'However tempting the automatic nature of ducking is, I never use it to dip VO in an edit. However carefully I set it up, it always needs some attention afterward. Automation guarantees the correct result but it can take a long time.
This is where the stand-out feature of SpeakUp comes in. SpeakUp is a ducker, it works well in that role and offers simplicity meaning that a less technically minded presenter would have little trouble operating it'
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We've been putting Audified SpeakUp through its paces using Final Cut and it works like a charm.
SpeakUp In Detail
SPEAKUP SENSOR
Just right amount of control.
- Sensitivity - adjust the threshold of voice-over detection
- Lookahead - tell the Sensor plugin how much to delay the speech so the music fades-out before the speech in the final render.
- Control Bus - choose up to two independent control busses if you need sophisticated scenario.
- Force Talk - push this button to be heard immediately no matter if you reach the Sensitivity threshold or not
- SPEAKUP PERFORMER
The Performer is fully controlled by Sensors. It can't be easier.
- Ducking Amount - defines the currently applied amount (0-100%) of desired attenuation
- Fade-out Time - transition time between 0 % and 100 % Ducking Amount
- Fade-in Time - transition time between 100 % and 0 % Ducking Amount
- Hold Time - keep the Ducking Amount value at 100 % while there is no speech
- Target Attenuation - set the target attenuation applied on music track
- Speech Frequencies Attenuation - set the attenuation of speech filter applied on your music track to enhance intelligibility of the voice-over
- Control Bus - set the performer to listen to Sensor signals on up to two independent control busses
Final Thoughts
Perhaps Apple has an auto-ducker in the works, but until there is one in Final Cut Pro X then Audified SpeakUp is the next best thing. It costs $139 and requires an iLok account (not iLok) to use the license, but if you make your money from Final Cut Pro then it's a small price to pay for the convenience it brings and the time saved, which of course is money.
Download a free trial and take it for a spin!